Tag: Tsunami warning
Magnitude 7.7 earthquake near Loyalty Islands triggers tsunami threat for Vanuatu,...
RNZ Pacific
New Zealand's National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) is warning coastal areas are expected to experience strong and unusual currents and unpredictable surges following...
Why no warning sirens before Tonga’s deadly tsunami hit? Minister unclear
By Kalino Latu in Auckland
The managing director of Radio FM Broadcom, Katalina Tohi, asked Tonga's disaster minister during last Sunday’s media conference to explain...
Fiji’s AG blames Tongan tsunami warning delay on ‘agency liaison’
By Luke Nacei in Suva
Fiji's Department of Mineral Resources needs time to liaise with a number of agencies before emergency warnings or alerts are...
Tonga volcano eruption and tsunami – 120 evacuated in NZ’s Far...
An Al Jazeera report on the undersea volcano Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai eruption and tsunami yesterday afternoon. Video: Al Jazeera English
RNZ News
Large waves in the Far North...
New tsunami warning in NZ, Samoa as volcano waves hit Tonga’s...
Kaniva Tonga News
A new tsunami warning is now in force for all of Tonga following this evening’s violent eruption of the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai undersea volcano...
Tonga tsunami warning lifted but volcano still monitored
RNZ Pacific
The tsunami marine warning issued for all of Tonga waters following the violent eruptions of underwater volcano Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai has been lifted.
Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai erupted on...
NZ the ‘unlucky shaky isles’, says Ardern after tsunami alert
By RNZ News
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says it is hard not to feel like New Zealand is having a run of bad luck, with...
Major 8.0 quake at Kermadecs, NZ warning for people to move...
By RNZ News
An 8.0 earthquake has struck near the Kermadec Islands, hours after a 7.4 quake near the Kermadecs and a 7.1 off the...
Tsunami warning after 7.7 quake off New Caledonia’s Loyalty Islands
By RNZ News
A magnitude 7.7 earthquake has struck south-east of New Caledonia's Loyalty Islands and a tsunnami warning is in place for several countries.
Geoscience...
Tourists flee Lombok as Indonesian quake death toll hits 98
Rescuers are still struggling to get to parts of Lombok island to assess the full extent of the damage from the earthquake. Video: Al...
RNZI remains ‘essential voice of the Pacific’, says broadcaster
Radio New Zealand International (RNZI) continues to serve people across the Pacific region, delivering essential day to day news and information and providing a...
Tsunami threat called off for PNG, Solomon Islands
A 7.9 magnitude earthquake has struck off Papua New Guinea, but there were no reports of casualties or damage after a potential tsunami did...
Pacific loses shortwave radio that dodges dictators – warns of disasters
By Dr Alexandra Wake in Melbourne
As a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Kirakira in the Solomon Islands early today, triggering a...
Magnitude 7.8 quake strikes Solomon Islands – tsunami warning eases
A tsunami warning has been issued for several Pacific countries - including Papua New Guinea, Nauru, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu - following an earthquake...
Powerful quake strikes Vanuatu but tsunami alert dropped
By Bob Makin and BMO News
A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.0 earthquake struck Vanuatu about 1km off Malekula early today, seismologists...